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New Caledonia elections to be delayed, ahead of crucial constitutional reforms

A pro-independence demonstration in Nouméa, New Caledonia, February 2024. © Theo Rouby AFP

France's national assembly has voted on postponing provincial elections in New Caledonia that are a prerequisite for constitutional reforms that are supposed to review the electoral system in the French overseas territory.

This Monday – following the vote's validation by the Senate – members of the French parliament are now considering what will be a very brief legislation, that will postpone the provincial elections in New Caledonia slated for this May "to 15 December 2024 at the latest".

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